Archives for March 2022

We noted yesterday that other owners are surely not happy with Browns owner Jimmy Haslam’s decision to give Deshaun Watson a big raise and a fully guaranteed contract. Now one owner has confirmed that. Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti said today that the Browns’ decision to give Watson that five-year, $230 million fully guaranteed contract is [more] … [Read more...] about Steve Bisciotti: Deshaun Watson’s guaranteed contract will make other negotiations harder

The Falcons are short on wide receivers right now, so they spent some time meeting with one about potentially joining the team on Tuesday. According to multiple reports, Damiere Byrd visited with the team. Field Yates of ESPN reports that Byrd also had a meeting with the Raiders recently. Byrd spent last season with the [more] … [Read more...] about Damiere Byrd visits Falcons

Quarterbacks have been flying around the NFL for the last couple of weeks, but the Lions have not made any moves at the position. General Manager Brad Holmes said on Tuesday that they’re happy with where Jared Goff is right now and that they are “looking forward to him having a productive year for us.” [more] … [Read more...] about Brad Holmes can “see some advantage” to having young QB behind Jared Goff

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell says the early returns on the 17-game season are positive. Goodell said that the NFL actually saw fewer concussions in 2021 than in 2020, despite playing one more week’s worth of regular-season games. “On the concussion front, we actually had less concussions in the 17-game format than we had in the [more] … [Read more...] about Goodell says concussions declined in 2021 despite addition of 17th game

The Panthers were in the hunt for Deshaun Watson before the Browns acquired him in a trade last week and that means there will be continued speculation about moves they might make at the quarterback position this offseason. One possible route they could go is the draft and head coach Matt Rhule was at the [more] … [Read more...] about Matt Rhule: I think one of these quarterbacks will be a top 10 pick